190 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
ftation upon Lamalmon. The language of Lamalmon is Ama~ 
haric ; but there are many villages where the language of: 
the Falafha is fpoken. Thefe are the ancient inhabitants of: 
the mountains, who {till preferve the religion, language, and: 
manners of their anceftors, and live in villages by them-. 
felves. Their number is now confiderably diminifhed,, 
and this has proportionally lowered their power and {fpirit. 
They are now wholly addicted to agriculture, hewers of: 
wood and carriers of water, and the only potters and ma-. 
fons in Abyflinia. In the former profeflion they excel! 
greatly, and, in general, live better than the other Abyfii-. 
nians ; which thefe, in revenge, attribute to a {kill in magic, 
~ mot to fuperior induftry. Their villages are generally: 
ftrongly fituated out of the reach of marching armies, o-- 
therwife they would be conftantly rifled, partly from hatred,, 
and partly from hopes of finding money.. , 
Ow the roth, at half paft feven in the morning, we con-. 
tinued along the plain on the-top of Lamalmon;; it is call+. 
ed Lama; and a village of the fame name bore about two, 
miles eaft from us. At eight o’clock we pafled two villages, 
called Mocken, one W. by N, at one mile and a half, the other: 
S. E. two miles diftant. At half paft eight we croffed the river: 
Macara, a confiderable ftream running with avery great cure. 
rent, which is the boundary between Woggora.and Lamal-. 
mon. At nine o’clock we encamped at fome fmall villages. 
called Macara, under a church named Yafous. On the 11th: 
of February, by the meridian altitude of the fun at noon,, 
and that of feveral fixed ftars proper for obfervation, I found? 
the latitude of Macara to be 13° 6’ 8”. The ground was every-. 
where burnt up; and, though the nights were very cold,, 
we had: not obferved the fmalleft dew fince our firft afcend- 
